We recently watched the movie “The Dish” again. I really recommend it if you haven’t seen it. It’s about the largest antenna in the southern hemisphere, situated in Parkes, Australia, and the role it played in relaying the images and transmissions from the first moon landing. It’s very funny, but more than that, it reminded [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
Failure or Success?
Do you ever feel that you are simply doomed to fail? Or if not exactly “doomed”, then certainly “more than likely” to fail?
I used to believe that. I wasn’t conscious of that fact, but yes, that was my belief and it had a few friends – “I’m not good enough”, “I don’t deserve…”, “I’m a [...]
Diabetes: You Have a Choice
It was World Diabetes Day last Saturday and it generated quite a lot of discussion in the blogging world. Yet, in most cases, the emphasis was on managing diabetes, not reversing it.
The problem with managing diabetes is that diabetes is a degenerative disease, meaning that it gets worse and worse over time. That means more [...]
Let her cry
About 10 years ago I worked with a rather strange girl who, when the day was especially fraught and hectic, would say, “I think I’ll have a good cry when I get home this evening“.
Our boss used to mock that statement (behind her back), saying that it’s stupid to schedule a cry. Always anxious for [...]
Laying the tracks
One of my favorite movies is Under the Tuscan Sun. I love everything about it, but especially the part where Frances bemoans the fact that she’s renovating a house for a life she doesn’t have. Signor Martini tells her:
Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is [...]
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